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AT the afternoon reception, the Emperor,
after receiving the congratulations OF the
royal family and princely guests, with the
Empress by his side and surrounded by
full court. formally announced the be-
trothal of Prince Henry, second son of the
Crown Prince Frederick William, to Prin-
cess Irene, of Hesse. The young couple
were afterwards heartily congratulated by
all the illustrious company.
a family dinner followed at o'clock at
the palace of the Crown Prince, to which
the Emperor and Empress were driven in
a closed carriage, as rain was falling. They
were greeted with uninteriupte cheering
along the way.
BERLIN IN A BLAZE OF GLORY.
BERLIN, March ODD Mcknight
Berlin is like a city of fire. The steeples
and domes all shine with brilliancy. The
electric light is the groundwork OF the IL
Elimination. Three rose. colored lights are
radiating from lofty avenues in the center
of the city, where the palaces are situated,
TO the most remote streets. From the
roofs of houses Bengal fires are everywhere
sending forth soft, glowing flames. In
Leipziger Platz, Unter der Linden, and
all the large streets, every house contributed
to the general effect Crowns of stars and
eagles are IN rlcn proIuSlon, ana numerous
colossal busts of the Emperor, surrounded
with exotic plants, are displayed, The
electric light On the square tower Of the
Town Hal emits ruddy glare. On Bran
derherg gate is an immense caldron, from
which flames are bursting forth every mo-
mont. The colossal arches at Potsdam
Station are illuminated with eagles, stars
and crowns, and the whole building is en-
circled with blazing pitch fires. Amid all
this glow and light SOC. GOO persons moved
in perfect order.
HoNoRED EVEN IN PARIS.
PARIS, March 22d.-Count Won Munster,
the German Embassador, held a reception
last night in honor of the Emperor's birth
day. The occasion proved of exceptional
interest and brilliancy to the whole diplo-
matte world. All the members of the
French Cabinet and other political celebri-
ties of France, including Clemenceau, and
prominent resident foreigners of Paris,
were present. The Due de Broglie was in
yited, but did not come. Gen. Boulanger,
Minister of War, was the lion of the even
ing He told Won Munster that he was
happy to associate himself with those who
wished to celebrate the birthday OF the Ger
man Emperor.
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INSTANTLY KILLED.

DIR. odell, of Lathrop, Shot by His
Brother-in-Law.
LATHRoP, March 22d.-Dr. T. H. Odell
was shot and instantly killed by his
brother-in-law, VIM. Moss, about 5 P. NJ.
to-day. No further particulars as vet.
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bismarck J aIlzs of Peace.

BERLIN, March 22d.-Prince Bismarck
has assured Crown Prince Rudolph, of
Austria Hungary, who is here representing
his father at the Emperor's birthday cele
bration, that Germany's foreign policy is
pacific, that peace is assured for 1887, and
that there is no cause for disguiet either
aesf Or vxaSf
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MISCELLANEOUS.
NEW YORK MARKET.

1920 and 1922 K street.....Sacrament
CPARERIBs AND PORK, AND ALL KINDS
y of Fresh and Salt Meats. Every variety of
Sausages fresh every day. Also, Ham, Bacon
and Lard at the most reasonable prices. Beet
shipped to all parts of the country. All orders
promptly attended to.
1p ODELL & HERzOG, Proprietors.
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UNDERTAKES.
D. MCKAY,
500 j Street

500 Street .,......sacramento,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN HAIR
lll ness of all grades. Saddles aud Collars
Horse Clothing Robes, Whips etc. We have on
hand large stock of Single Buggy Harness, all
hand made, from SO UP. In
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The Paris Murderer Captured.

PARIS, March 22d.-An Italian named
Franzni was arrested on charge of mur-
dering Nine. Regnault and her maid. A
quantity of bloody clothing was found in
having committed the crime.
China Takes a Hint.
SHANGHAI, March 22d.-The foreign pro-
moters of the project to build railway
joining LaitatakH to Tientsn are much cha
grined because LII Hang Chang sanctioned
the proposal that Chinese labor must be
used in the construction of the road.
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Nine. Scalchi, the celebrated singer. who
has been lying at the Grand Pacific Hotel,
Chicago, is slowly recovering.
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CHANGED DAILY FOR 6. H. GI.MAN-MARca %, 1ss7.
agBTo-DAY agB

brilliant showing for EARLY SPRING TRADE
Our assortment @ is wonderfully full and fine for the
rich gathering, to which additions are being made
daily:
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THE AGONY ENDED.

The President Names Full Interstate
Commission.
WASHINGTON. March 22d-The President
has appointed the following Interstate
Commissioners Thomas NJ. Cooley, of
Michigan, for term of six years; Wm. r.
Morrison, of Illinois. for a term of five
years; Augustus Schoonmaker, of New
York, for term of four years Aldace +.
Walker. of Vermont, for term OF three
years; Walter L. Bragg, Of Alabama, for
term of Two years.
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HOME AFFAIRS.
ALL THE INTERSTATE COMMIS-
SI0NERS APPOINTED.
The Presidents Physical Condition
Claimed to be GOod-A Family
Perish in the Dakota Flood.
TnE WESTERN FLOODS.

IsrraAL DISPATCHES 10 THE REcoaD-uMOS.I
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Hoods SQrsononNo

Combines, in manner peculiar to itself, the
best blood-purifying and strengthening rene.
dies of the vegetable kingdom. You will find
this wonderful remedy effective where other
medicines have failed. Try it now. 1t will
purify your blood, regulate the digestion,
and give new life and yigor to the eptire body.
Hoods Sarsaparilla did me great good.
was tired out from oyerwork, and it toned
me up" Mrs. G. E. SIMMONS, Cohoes, N. Y.
81 suffered three years from blood poison.
took Hoods Sarsaparilla and think 1 am
cured" Mrs. NJ. J. DAVIS, Broekport, N. Y,
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Winter Exposure Causes Coughs,
Colds, Pleurisy, Rheumatism, Pneumonia Neu-
raigia, sciatiea, Lumbago, Backaehe and other
ailments for which Benson's Capcine Plasters
are admitted 10 be the best remedy known
They relieve and cure in a few hours when no
other application is OF the least benefit. In
1orsed by 5 Coo Physicians and Druggists. Be
ware of limitations under similar sounding
names. such as "Capsieum" "Cdpsicin' - OF
"Capsieine" Ask for Benson dzd sake no others
Examine carefully when you buy. AL drug
sEABURY s JOHNSON, Pronrieto-s, New
l7G-Cu, AfXVS
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REEVES & LONG.

u NJ ID ERTAH TX r. ER9,
6o9J ST., bet. Sixth and Seventh north side)
yNE. KEEP ON HAND A COM-sz~--
w plete Stock of Cofins and CaSkets o.
Also, ShrOuds of every description Orders
from city or country will receive prompt atten
ton, dsy or night. EMBALMING done in the
best manner, at reasonable rates II
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w, ]. KAVANAUGH.

u M ID Il III IT a tx K IA !.
No. 5I3 St, bet. Fifth and Sixth.
A LWAYS ON HAND A LARGE ASSORT-
\ ment of Metallic and Wooden Caskets
lturial Cases. Goffius and Shrouds furnished
Coffin orders Will receive prompt attention on
short notice, and at the lowest rates. Office
open day and night. 4p-tf
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Pasrifes the Blood

Hoods sarsapariila is characterized by
three peculiarities 1st, the combination Of
remedial agents; I'd, the proportion; Sd, the
process Of securing the active medicinal
qualities. The result is a medicine Of unusual
strength, efTecting cures hitherto unknown.
Send for book containing additional evidence
Hoods Sarsapasilla tones up my system,
pHriIies my blood, sharrens my appetite. ana
seems 10 make me oyer.D J. /. THoMPsOSs
Register OF Deeds, Lowell, Mass.
Hoods Sarsaparilla beats all others. and
is worth IFS weight in goId.' I. BAgKISGroSr
i3o Bank Street, New York City.
Hoods SarsapasilEa
Sold by all druggists. 81 six for s5. Made
only by c. /. HOOD s. CO, Lowell, Mass.
100 DcseS Orc Dollar
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PACIFIC COAST.
STEADY PROGRESS REPORTED IN
INTERIOR COUNTIES.
Herber Kills Himself in Inyo
County-Dr. L. III. Odell Killed at
Lathrop by Wm. Moss.
HoNoRs TO A SENATOR.

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD UNION ]
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FOREIGN TOPICS.
HOT DEBATE IN THE BRITISH
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Emperor Williams Birthday Cele
bration-Bismarck' Assurances
that Germany Desires Peace
BRITISH AFFAIRS.

SPECIAL DISPATCHES 10 THE EEcoRD-uMoN.l
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FREsFo, March 22d.-A man named
Hopkins. who vas acting as spy for the
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The flower appears in April, the fruit
ripens in November. As the pistillate is
the male tree, and it grew first on the place
of s. c. Wolfskill, the staminate tree on the
place of the brother was necessary to fer
tiize it, and since then (1SS3) it has
grown the best fruit it has produced.
A well-matured tree will yield from 100 to
300 pounds of berries per year. The nutri-
tive value of the date is the same as that
of rice. The date is packed by pressing
the berries together, their own sugar serv-
ing to preserve them just as they are seen
in mats on the fruit stands in this city.
The fruit is also eaten fresh, and is pro-
nounced delicious.
The stones for planting-those of the
fruit-stand dates are perfectly good-should
be soaked in water few days and then
planted upright in a sandy soil mixed
with rotten manure and salt. In six
weeks the shoots appear. In two years
time they take on the form OF
the tree somewhat. Much sand.
little water. not too much salt, and
the young date tree will thrive the first few
years. Il must be set out fully eight or ten
feet apart, and one staminate tree to twenty
pistillates. The young trees must not be
trimmed until they fruit. and then only
the dry and withered leaves taken of, and
with great care.
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! planted in the vicinities of Smelling, Hope
ton and Mariposa Creek. In Kern county,
near Bakersfield, 40 acres were planted.
Cotton-gins were erected in MERGED and
Kern counties. In 1873 the cotton acreage
in MERGED county alone was estimated to be
from 1900 to 1000 acres. On the 11th of
May of that year the first export of cotton
was made from California, the Buckley
Bros, of MERGED county. shipping 22,SS6
pounds to Liverpool. In this shipment
was small lot of Nankin cotton, which
received high commentator at MaDches-
ter. The culture of cotton has been steadily
continued on the MERGED bottoms since,
with an acreage of from 500 TO 1000 acres.
The largest experiment in cotton planting
reported from the Sacramento valley, be-
tween 1872 and 1881, was of J. L. Jackson,
on bottom land of the Sacramento river in
1876. He planted $50 acres, and obtained
stand on 100 acres. Cultivation was some
what neglected, and the cotton was not all
picked-most of it only once. The product
was 10000 pounds of lint, or about 1873
pounds 10 the acre. A number of
SMALL PAINTINGS WE'RE MADE
In the same region about this time, but the
want of a home market discouraged con-
tinuation of the culture
In 1880 field of about sixty acres was
planted at the Belleview ranch of Haggin &
Carr, in Kern county. The outcome was
sufficiently satisfactory to induce the plant
ing of a considerably greater breadth.
Some excellent samples of cotton were
grown in 1881 in the Mussel slough coun-
try, and as the alkali question" becomes
more pressing, and interferes with the sue
cess of wheat culture, ii is likely that cotton
will become favorite crop.
Experiments made with sea island and
upland cotton on 500 acres near Williams,
Colusa county, and near Gridley, in Butte
county, seem to prove that
COTTON WILL YIELD GOOD RESULTS
In the Sacramento valley, without either
irrigation or the frequent rains considered
so necessary to the welfare of the cotton
plant in the Southwestern States.
With the equalization of the prices of
labor in consequence of increased facilities
of communication, there certainly is no
reason why the home demand for cotton
goods on the Pacific coast should not be
supplied from the home growth and manu-
facture and there is no reason why it
might not secure a large share of the
Asiatic market, with which it is in the
most direct connection.
The California cotton-grower has great
advantage over his Southern competitor in
this, that the latter has to fight the grass"
throughout the season in fact to keep the
cotton 'out of the grass is his reverend
ing task In the Sacram ento valley, where
cotton
CAN BE GROWN WITHOUT IRRIGATION,
Weeds cease to worry the farmer after the
dry season sets in, if the ground has been
properly attended to before. No summer
showers start new crop of grass, and COM
pact the sIrface into q strangling and
a moisture wasting crust. II clean to the
dry season, the ground remains clean, save
petliap- e iaw large struggling weeds, that
can bt 4 ,ie away with hy a few strokes of
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COTTON CULTURE.
EXPERIMENTS IN NORTHERN AND
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Indicate that this State Must in the
Future Become n Formidable
Competitor in that Staple.

California stands in front rank as re-
CARDS her capabilities as cotton producing
State. So far she has produced but few
bales of this staple, fact that would not
seem to bear out the assertion above made.
This condition of things must properly be
accounted for as temporary and accidental,
for cotton has been successfully grown
within the State all the way from the Mex
lean boundary to Shasta county, and the
staple produced has, on the whole, proved
to be of peculiar excellence. The restricted
area now given to its cultivation is the con-
current result of many causes, chief among
which is the distance from any but home
market, which renders competition with
the Gulf States in any other sphere imprac-
tcable. In the absence of cotton mills the
home market has been restricted to the
amount consumed by the wooden mills
within the State for the
MANUFACTURE OF MINED FABRICS
Again, the predominance acquired at the
outset by the culture of wheat and other
food crops, and in later years by the cult
ure OF the grape and certain other fruits
of which California has almost monopoly
ID the United States, naturally tended to
keep down the culture of staple, in the
production of which there is such formida-
bic competition by the gulf States on the
one hand, and by India on the other.
Since, however, the production for the
home market has steadily been maintained
and has proved profitable, ii is legitimate to
infer. that whenever by the establishment
of cotton factories on the coast, the local
demand shall increase, cotton production
will do the same. There are, however
causes that tend TO commend cotton culture
to the California farmer, viz: its relations
to the peculiarities of the soil and climate,
especially to that of the great valley of the
Sacramento. These are sufficiently strong
TO render 1t probable that cotton culture
will rapidly increase hereafter in the State.
The culture of hardy plants OF rapid devel-
opment was the first and most obvious
expedient resorted to by the American set
tiers, in order to utilize the fertile soils of
the region of rainless summers. The selec-
ton of culture plants adapted 10 arid eli
mates was the one which naturally sug-
gested itself to the missionary padres, who
brought with them
FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION
Of Europe the vine, the vine, the olive,
and the citrus fruits. They brought from
the adjacent portions Of Mexico the culture
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THE DATE PALM.
A TREE THAT Is STRANGE AND
BEAUTIFUL.
How 1t Crows in California, and How
It Game TO Bear Dates in the
Sacramento Valley.

S. II. Gerrish, the fruit culturist, says
that he has seen young date trees springing
up in the streets of Sacramento where the
stones were thrown after the preserved
dates sold on the fruit stands had been
thrown after the meat had been eaten.
Certainly We know TO demonstration that
the date will grow in the Sacramento val
ley but thus far no one has cultivated it.
This is not more strange. however, than
the other fact that the orange giows and
luxuriates in the valley and its foothills,
yet for thirty years no one dreamed of
raising them. A solitary tree up at Bid
wells Bar was the result of accidental
planting, and it bore oranges in its time.
From that enc stock came about all the
seedlings planted in the valley up 70 ehe
data little while ago-when budded
fruit was given attention.
THE DATE PALM TREE
Appears destined to a similar history IN the
valley. At Winters, in Yolo county, not
many miles from Sacramento, and in the
very heart of the great wealth of this mag
nifcent valley, there dwet, and still dwell,
the Wolfskills s. {. and j. +. On their
places are matured date palm trees. They
were the result of what was nothing better
than accidental planting. That is to say,
they were grown from stones taken from
the packed dates of commerce, and some of
which the Wolfskills bought in San Fran
cisco to eat. The stones were taken home,
and put into the ground. That was between
25 and 30 years ago. Each year since those
trees have grown at least one foot and one
of them much more. They have now at
tanned probably their maturity.
IN THE CITRUS FAIR
There hang six punches of dates from the
trees on the Wolfskill places. Three of
these punches are red and three are white
The first is oval and much elongated, and
in the case of the white, about as large as
a ladys index finger, and say an inch and
a quarter long. The red is smaller by
third. They hang very thickly upon what
appears TO be yellow, dried, long and
thfckly. clustered stems attached to stalk
the size CT ones wrist. This is all that APP
pears TO the eye. The olive white fruit
plucked proves TO be unripe, pithy and
pleasant only 10 the taste the red is ripe
and ready to preserve. But these six
punches are
WITNESSES TO OUR CLAIMS
That the Sacramento is a semi. tropic val
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and the crops produced in the best soils
| and in the best years have, many of them,
been marvelously large. Several cases
have been reported, seemingly well-au-
| thenticated, of more than seventy bushels
to the acre. Hon. John Bidwell, one of
| the best known farmers OF the State, at
| Chico, when premiums were offered by the
| State Agricultural Society, harvested mp
| wards of seyenty-three bushels per acre on
ten acres measured and thrashed in the
presence of witnesses, and with the proper
certifcations as to authenticity. There IS
no California farmer but that believes that
| larger crops than even this have been grown.
COMBINED HARyEsTERs AND THRAsHERs
Are coming into successful use in the great
central valley. The special conditions of
topography, soil and climate make their
use practicable, and they have been brought
10 successful development Their use is
so exceptional, their operations are so
striking, and their promise is so great, that
description is here justified. These ma
chimes are manufactured in Stockton, where
the patents are held.
The machine is a header, with lS-foot
cutting bar, cutting full 174-foot swath.
The cut grain falls backward on an endless
apron, and by suitable devices is carried to
the thrasher and separator, which stands
upon a platform back of the cutting bar
and parallel with il. The thrasher has a
32-inch cylinder, which stands at the right
hand side of the platform, and the thrashed
material is carried to the left and toward
the standing grain the chatf and straw
are sent downward into the tall stubble,
and the clean grain is delivered into sacks,
which are served up by hand and thrown
off on the stubble. A man follows with
wagon and gathers the sacks into large piles,
from which they are hauled to the ware
house.
The power is furnished by twenty large
mules working
TEN ABREAST IN TWO RANKS.
Four men only are required for the whole
work of this machine. First, machine
man, whose place is on the platform in
front of the thrasher, and back of the apron,
whose business it is to raise or lower the
cutting-bar when Inequalities of the ground
or of the grain require it, and to look after
the working of the machine in general.
The second man is the steersman, and
he sits perched high above all the rest on
the top of the separator, and steers with
horizontal wheel which, by means of
tiller chains, is connected with a pilot
wheel at the extreme hinder end OF the
machine. The third man is on the plat
form behind the separator, with pile of
sacks beside him, and threaded needles
ready for use. He fastens the sacks in
place, opens the spout and they are quickly
lilled withdraws them, sews them up
with lightning rapidity-which comes
from practice-rolls them on slide, and
they glide away to the right, out upon the
stubble, entirely beyond the reach of the
machine. When the grain is heavy, this
mans work is arduous. The fourth man
is the driver, who Is seated at the extreme
rear,
OVER THE PILOT WHEEL,
And either keeps that place or walks TO